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This fight has just begun, that's why, as chairwoman of Senate Rules Committee, I am announcing a series of hearings on the urgent need to pass critical voting, campaign finance, and ethics reforms, including a field hearing in Georgia to hear testimony on the recently enacted legislation to restrict voting in the state. – Amy Klobuchar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The government has some power to restrict these rights for a certain amount of time if it is necessary and if the restrictions are proportionate with ... the aim that they want to achieve, but not for a prolonged or an unlimited time. – David Vig	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
More than 50-55% of society was already vaccinated, (but) demonstrations were still impossible. ... That is a very clear violation of international human rights standards, the government has some power to restrict these rights for a certain amount of time if it is necessary and if the restrictions are proportionate with ... the aim that they want to achieve, but not for a prolonged or an unlimited time. – David Vig	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well. – Alan Dershowitz	added by Normando 2 years ago
Gender inequality is the most insidious and pervasive impediment to bodily autonomy. It starts from the cradle, gender unequal norms and attitudes lead to power imbalances that restrict women’s decision-making ... (driving) the expectation that women and girls will yield to others in all aspects of their lives. – Natalia Kanem	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
So our hope is that... this boycott would result in changes in the law, because we understand that when you restrict people's ability to vote, you create a democracy that isn't fully functioning for all of us. And if we are to continue to be a beacon of hope for all democracies around the world, we must stand our ground. – Ilhan Omar	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To prudently manage the risk and the deposit requirements, we had to restrict buying in these 13 stocks, we're in a historic situation where there's a lot of activity and a lot of buying concentrated in a relatively small number of symbols that are going viral on social media. We haven't really seen anything like this before. – Vlad Tenev	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In Beijing and big cities, we still restrict auto purchases...there are no such restrictions in London, New York or Tokyo. – Xu Hongcai	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
China is firmly opposed to this, ‘Forced labor’ is the biggest lie of the century, made by persons and agencies in some Western countries including the United States, with an aim to restrict and suppress the relevant Chinese authorities and companies, and contain China's development. – Zhao Lijian	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
For politicians who have been preaching to us to restrict our activities, to restrict our social gatherings, to see our elderly loved ones through iPad and glass windows, for them to then ignore the sacrifice of others for their personal pleasure,( it) is hard to articulate how deeply disturbing that is, it truly feels like an insult. – Quebecs Covid-19	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is desirable that people restrict their mobility and social contacts as much as possible, to sum it up, this Christmas we stay at home. – Salvador Illa	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There is always the prospect that The President can choose not to share The PDB with the president-elect, that's merely a tradition of good government, not in statute... and there's nothing to say The President can't restrict which items go to the president-elect. – David Priess	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Senate has the keys to the castle right now, the Senate could actually pass a bill that gives Americans some confidence that they would have economic support, get the extra $ 600 in unemployment benefits running again, make sure that people understand that they could feed their kids and pay their rent if we have in some areas of the country to restrict activities. And they have the ability to step up to their president and say,' Kathleen Sebelius need to act differently, Kathleen Sebelius must acknowledge the election and conduct a smooth transition,'. – Kathleen Sebelius	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The people who want to restrict abortion also want to undermine and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, for example, which is not consistent with Roman Catholic teaching and which arguably has done more providing women with crisis pregnancies the support they need to reduce abortions than any kind of broader law against the topic or criminalization of it could ever do. – Cathleen Kaveny	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our society needs to understand and accept the need for emotional and even physical support at any age. This stigma( of late life companionship) has been running in the society for so long but with time it will hopefully change, we didn't want to restrict her life or happiness because of what society thinks. Why should anybody have that right ? – Radhika Lakshmi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I take it very seriously when we're going to put people in their cells and restrict movement. That's not healthy, that's not good either, and I'd like to think that that's the last resort. – Prisons Director Michael Carvajal	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We all feel horrible when we have to restrict anyone from seeing a loved one, it's a very traumatic thing. But we have to look at the big picture here. – Joan Rikli	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Listen, we were told we are at the one-yard line last night to get this done, all Ive got to say is, The Senate may think The Senate at the one-yard line right now, but Montanans are getting sacked. In fact, our unemployment claims in Montana since march 17th, we just looked it up 15 minutes ago, 14,350 Montanans have filed for unemployment in the last week. Monday had been marked with furious debate on the The Senate floor, as Republicans accused White House Democrats of proposing an alternative stimulus bill that was full of unnecessary progressive wishlist items. The Senate Democrats in the meantime repeatedly blocked the Republican stimulus bill, which would require 60 votes to survive. WATCH Steve Daines FULLSPEECH ON THE SENATE FLOOR The bill offered by White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., included measures to restrict airlines carbon emissions, protect illegal immigrants, provide for same-day voter registration, pay off billions in student loan debt, encourage federal agencies to employ. – Steve Daines	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Secretary of Mike Pompeo spoke today with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon on coordinating a plan to restrict non-essential travel across our shared border in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two leaders discussed the importance of creating a uniform North American strategy to reduce public health risks to our communities and more effectively address rising challenges jointly. – State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe, the European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe. – President Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People who are mildly ill with COVID-19 are able to isolate at home during their illness, you should restrict activities outside your home, except for getting medical care. Do not go to work, school, or public areas. Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis. – The CDC	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge. – Daniel Munoz	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Trump has threatened to restrict China's access to U.S. capital markets, and Alibaba's Hong Kong listing could help blunt that leverage. – Brock Silvers	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
President Erdogan is conducting one of the biggest campaigns to restrict rights and freedoms anywhere in the world. – Edward Markey	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

This fight has just begun, that's why, as chairwoman of Senate Rules Committee, I am announcing a series of hearings on the urgent need to pass critical voting, campaign finance, and ethics reforms, including a field hearing in Georgia to hear testimony on the recently enacted legislation to restrict voting in the state.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The government has some power to restrict these rights for a certain amount of time if it is necessary and if the restrictions are proportionate with ... the aim that they want to achieve, but not for a prolonged or an unlimited time.

– David Vig

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

More than 50-55% of society was already vaccinated, (but) demonstrations were still impossible. ... That is a very clear violation of international human rights standards, the government has some power to restrict these rights for a certain amount of time if it is necessary and if the restrictions are proportionate with ... the aim that they want to achieve, but not for a prolonged or an unlimited time.

– David Vig

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

– Alan Dershowitz

added by Normando
2 years ago

Gender inequality is the most insidious and pervasive impediment to bodily autonomy. It starts from the cradle, gender unequal norms and attitudes lead to power imbalances that restrict women’s decision-making ... (driving) the expectation that women and girls will yield to others in all aspects of their lives.

– Natalia Kanem

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

So our hope is that... this boycott would result in changes in the law, because we understand that when you restrict people's ability to vote, you create a democracy that isn't fully functioning for all of us. And if we are to continue to be a beacon of hope for all democracies around the world, we must stand our ground.

– Ilhan Omar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To prudently manage the risk and the deposit requirements, we had to restrict buying in these 13 stocks, we're in a historic situation where there's a lot of activity and a lot of buying concentrated in a relatively small number of symbols that are going viral on social media. We haven't really seen anything like this before.

– Vlad Tenev

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In Beijing and big cities, we still restrict auto purchases...there are no such restrictions in London, New York or Tokyo.

– Xu Hongcai

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

China is firmly opposed to this, ‘Forced labor’ is the biggest lie of the century, made by persons and agencies in some Western countries including the United States, with an aim to restrict and suppress the relevant Chinese authorities and companies, and contain China's development.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For politicians who have been preaching to us to restrict our activities, to restrict our social gatherings, to see our elderly loved ones through iPad and glass windows, for them to then ignore the sacrifice of others for their personal pleasure,( it) is hard to articulate how deeply disturbing that is, it truly feels like an insult.

– Quebecs Covid-19

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is desirable that people restrict their mobility and social contacts as much as possible, to sum it up, this Christmas we stay at home.

– Salvador Illa

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

There is always the prospect that The President can choose not to share The PDB with the president-elect, that's merely a tradition of good government, not in statute... and there's nothing to say The President can't restrict which items go to the president-elect.

– David Priess

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Senate has the keys to the castle right now, the Senate could actually pass a bill that gives Americans some confidence that they would have economic support, get the extra $ 600 in unemployment benefits running again, make sure that people understand that they could feed their kids and pay their rent if we have in some areas of the country to restrict activities. And they have the ability to step up to their president and say,' Kathleen Sebelius need to act differently, Kathleen Sebelius must acknowledge the election and conduct a smooth transition,'.

– Kathleen Sebelius

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The people who want to restrict abortion also want to undermine and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, for example, which is not consistent with Roman Catholic teaching and which arguably has done more providing women with crisis pregnancies the support they need to reduce abortions than any kind of broader law against the topic or criminalization of it could ever do.

– Cathleen Kaveny

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our society needs to understand and accept the need for emotional and even physical support at any age. This stigma( of late life companionship) has been running in the society for so long but with time it will hopefully change, we didn't want to restrict her life or happiness because of what society thinks. Why should anybody have that right ?

– Radhika Lakshmi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I take it very seriously when we're going to put people in their cells and restrict movement. That's not healthy, that's not good either, and I'd like to think that that's the last resort.

– Prisons Director Michael Carvajal

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We all feel horrible when we have to restrict anyone from seeing a loved one, it's a very traumatic thing. But we have to look at the big picture here.

– Joan Rikli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Listen, we were told we are at the one-yard line last night to get this done, all Ive got to say is, The Senate may think The Senate at the one-yard line right now, but Montanans are getting sacked. In fact, our unemployment claims in Montana since march 17th, we just looked it up 15 minutes ago, 14,350 Montanans have filed for unemployment in the last week. Monday had been marked with furious debate on the The Senate floor, as Republicans accused White House Democrats of proposing an alternative stimulus bill that was full of unnecessary progressive wishlist items. The Senate Democrats in the meantime repeatedly blocked the Republican stimulus bill, which would require 60 votes to survive. WATCH Steve Daines FULLSPEECH ON THE SENATE FLOOR The bill offered by White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., included measures to restrict airlines carbon emissions, protect illegal immigrants, provide for same-day voter registration, pay off billions in student loan debt, encourage federal agencies to employ.

– Steve Daines

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Secretary of Mike Pompeo spoke today with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubon on coordinating a plan to restrict non-essential travel across our shared border in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two leaders discussed the importance of creating a uniform North American strategy to reduce public health risks to our communities and more effectively address rising challenges jointly.

– State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe, the European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.

– President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People who are mildly ill with COVID-19 are able to isolate at home during their illness, you should restrict activities outside your home, except for getting medical care. Do not go to work, school, or public areas. Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing, or taxis.

– The CDC

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge.

– Daniel Munoz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Trump has threatened to restrict China's access to U.S. capital markets, and Alibaba's Hong Kong listing could help blunt that leverage.

– Brock Silvers

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

President Erdogan is conducting one of the biggest campaigns to restrict rights and freedoms anywhere in the world.

– Edward Markey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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